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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ </li> <li><a href="#wildcards">Wildcards</a></li> <li><a href="#regularexpressions">Regular expressions</a></li> + <li><a href="#storageArea">Storage Area (Sync vs Local)</a></li> <li><a href="#examples">Examples</a> <ol> <li><a href="#ex1">Static redirect</a></li> @@ -149,7 +150,28 @@ the regular expressions. Captures are specified with parentheses. Example: <span class="pattern">http://example.com/index.asp\?id=(\d+)</span> will match the url <span class="url">http://example.com/index.asp?id=12345</span> and $1 will be replaced by 12345. (A common mistake in regex patterns is to forget to escape the ? sign in the querystring of the url. ? is a special character in regular expressions so if you want to match an url with a querystring - you should escape it as \?).</p> + you should escape it as \?). To test your regular expressions, you may use any website or service. For example, <a href="https://regexr.com" target="_blank">regexr.com</a> </p> + + <a name="storageArea"></a> + <h4>Storage Area (Sync vs Local)</h4> + + <p>Storage Area, by default, is set to Local. If you wish to sync your redirector rules across devices, you may choose to enable Sync from Settings page. + When you toggle to Sync, data will be copied over to Sync storage and local storage will be deleted. + Similary, sync storage will be deleted if you disable sync and data will be moved to Local storage. + <div> + <em>Note:</em><ol> <li>Google Chrome Sync and Mozilla Firefox Sync limits the storage size as per below. + This limit is decided by browser vendors and Redirector addon cannot do anything about changing the below.</li> + <li>You need to use chrome/firefox settings to setup a sync account for syncing to work. + If that is not completed, Sync will just act like local storage - take note of the storage sizes below. + If sync account is not setup in chrome/firefox browser settings, leave the storage area to LOCAL as it has much larger size than Sync storage size. + </li> </ol> + + <ul> + <li>Local Storage: 5 MB - Redirector uses this as Default upon its installation</li> + <li>Sync Storage : 0.008192 MB to store "Redirects" (8192 bytes) </li> + </ul> +</div> + </p> <a name="examples"></a> <h4>Examples</h4> |